Erín Moure

Erín Moure

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You can read this poem in the following translations:

Théâtre de la Chapelle de Pierre (Abades) (French)
Theater der Steinkapelle (Abades) (German)

Theatre of the Stone Chapel (Abades)

In one of its cornices are the two boots of a man
In one of the stone canzorros
If you listen you can hear him walk
His walk is stone and
his gasoline is stone
and his quill is stone
 
that’s why he hasn’t written
because his quill is stone

that’s why he hasn’t come yet
his gasoline is stone

that’s why at night you hear him walking
his boots are stone

even his field of corn is stone
and his mother is water

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© House of Anansi Press / Erín Moure

From: Little Theatres

House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2005

Audio production: 2007, Literaturwerkstatt Berlin